Practical Common Lisp (Paperback)

Now available in paperback—

Lisp is often thought of as an academic language, but it need not be. This is the first book that introduces Lisp as a language for the real world.

Practical Common Lisp presents a thorough introduction to Common Lisp, providing you with an overall understanding of the language features and how they work. Over a third of the book is devoted to practical examples, such as the core of a spam filter and a web application for browsing MP3s and streaming them via the Shoutcast protocol to any standard MP3 client software (e.g., iTunes, XMMS, or WinAmp). In other "practical" chapters, author Peter Seibel demonstrates how to build a simple but flexible in-memory database, how to parse binary files, and how to build a unit test framework in 26 lines of code.

現在以平裝本的形式發售——Lisp通常被認為是一種學術語言，但實際上並非如此。這是第一本將Lisp介紹為一種適用於現實世界的語言的書籍。

《實用的Common Lisp》全面介紹了Common Lisp，讓您對語言特性及其運作方式有整體的理解。書中有三分之一的內容專門介紹了實際的例子，例如垃圾郵件過濾器的核心和一個用於瀏覽MP3並通過Shoutcast協議將它們流式傳輸到任何標準MP3客戶端軟件（例如iTunes、XMMS或WinAmp）的Web應用程序。在其他“實用”章節中，作者Peter Seibel演示了如何構建一個簡單但靈活的內存數據庫，如何解析二進制文件，以及如何用26行代碼構建一個單元測試框架。